T161 Better Living Through Geochemistry: Fostering an Understanding of Terrestrial Paleoenvironments and Paleoclimates

Tuesday, 24 October 2006
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Presentations

• 1:30 PM
  USING TERRESTRIAL CARBON-ISOTOPE STRATIGRAPHY IN UNDERSTANDING CLIMATES AND ENVIRONMENTS
  Darren R. Grocke, Durham University, Durham, N/A
  114666 (Technical Sessions)
• 1:50 PM
  OXYGEN ISOTOPE ESTIMATES OF MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURE FOR AN EARLY EOCENE, TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT IN THE CANADIAN HIGH ARCTIC
  Jaelyn J. Eberle, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO and John Humphrey, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO and Logan Hackett, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO
  114524 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:05 PM
  HIGH-RESOLUTION CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATIONS OF MID-CRETACEOUS STRATA DEPOSITED FROM THE EASTERN MARGIN TO THE FOREDEEP OF THE WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN, NORTHWESTERN IOWA TO NORTHEASTERN WYOMING
  Philip Morath, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Timothy S. White, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and Brian Witzke, Iowa Dept. Nat Rscs, Iowa City, IA
  115540 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:20 PM
  PETROGRAPHIC AND ISOTOPIC INVESTIGATION OF DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS IN THE EARLY CRETACEOUS (APTIAN-ALBIAN) TLAYÚA QUARRY, MEXICO
  Marina Suarez, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Luis A. González, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Francisco J. Vega-Vera, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, D.F., México, N/A and Greg A. Ludvigson, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
  116493 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:35 PM
  GEOCHEMICAL EVIDENCE FOR REDOX VARIATIONS ACROSS THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC BOUNDARY IN THE TETHYS SEA
  Tracy M. Quan, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ and Bas van de Schootbrugge, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, N/A and Yair Rosenthal, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ and Paul G. Falkowski, Rutgers Universtiy, New Brunswick, NJ
  109327 (Technical Sessions)
• 2:50 PM
  ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF 2.7 GA CHERT AND CARBONATE, TUMBIANA FORMATION, AUSTRALIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR LATE ARCHEAN CLIMATIC TEMPERATURES AND EARLY EVOLUTION OF LIFE
  L. Paul Knauth, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ and S.M. Awramik, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA and H. Paul Buchheim, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA
  113217 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:20 PM
  LATE QUATERNARY EVOLUTION OF NORTH AMERICAN GRASSLANDS INFERRED FROM STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES OF BURIED SOIL ORGANIC MATTER
  Lee Nordt, Baylor University, Waco, TX and Joseph von Fischer, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO and Larry Tieszen, U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, SD
  109908 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:40 PM
  C4 EXPANSION IN INNER MONGOLIA DURING THE LATEST MIOCENE AND EARLY PLIOCENE
  Chunfu Zhang, Florida State Univ and National High Magnetic Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL and Yang Wang, Florida State Univ and National High Magnetic Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL and Dana Biasatti, Florida State Univ and National High Magnetic Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL and Tao Deng, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A and Zhuding Qiu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A and Qiang Li, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A and Xiaoming Wang, Nat History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA
  114179 (Technical Sessions)
• 3:55 PM
  PALEOENVIRONMENT OF A LATE PLIOCENE FAUNA OF NORTHERN TIBETAN PLATEAU
  Yang Wang, Florida State Univ and National High Magnetic Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL and Yingfeng Xu, Florida State Univ and National High Magnetic Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL and Chunfu Zhang, Florida State Univ and National High Magnetic Field Lab, Tallahassee, FL and Xiaoming Wang, Nat History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA and Tao Deng, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A and Zhuding Qiu, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A and Qiang Li, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, N/A
  109615 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:10 PM
  PALEOENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE ON WRANGEL ISLAND, NE SIBERIA, RECORDED IN 87SR/86SR OF HERBIVORE SKELETAL REMAINS
  Laura M. Arppe, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, N/A and J.A. Karhu, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, N/A and S. Vartanyan, Wrangel Island State Reserve, Ushakovskoye, N/A
  108460 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:25 PM
  PRELIMINARY GEOCHEMICAL TAPHONOMY OF BONE BED SITES IN THE YELLOW CAT MEMBER OF THE CEDAR MOUNTAIN FORMATION, UTAH
  Celina A. Suarez, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Gwen Macpherson, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and Luis A. Gonzalez, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and James I. Kirkland, Utah Geological Survey, Salt Lake City, UT
  116501 (Technical Sessions)
• 4:40 PM
  FRESHWATER TAPHONOMY: EXPLORING THE EFFECT OF TIME ON THE TRACE ELEMENT AND STABLE ISOTOPE RECORD IN UNIONID SHELLS
  Monica Carroll, University of Georgia, Aiken, SC and Christopher S. Romanek, Aiken, SC
  110138 (Technical Sessions)